An Antique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAA AAAA ABAB CDCD AEAE AFAF AAAA GHGH IJIJ KLKM ANAN

Mildewed and gray the marble stairsA
Rise from their balustraded urnsA
To where a chiseled satyr glaresA
From a luxuriant bed of fernsA
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A pebbled walk that labyrinthsA
'Twixt parallels of verdant boxA
To where broad based on grotesque plinthsA
'Mid cushions of moss padded rocksA
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Rises a ruined pleasure houseA
Of shattered column broken domeB
Where reveling in thick carouseA
The buoyant ivy makes its homeB
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And here from bank and there from bedC
Down the mad rillet's jubilant lymphD
The lavish violet's odors shedC
In breathings of a fountain nymphD
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And where in lichened hoarinessA
The broken marble dial plateE
Basks in the Summer's sultrinessA
Rich houri roses palpitateE
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Voluptuous languid with perfumesA
As were the beauties that of oldF
In damask satins jeweled plumesA
With powdered gallants here that strolledF
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When slender rapiers proud with gemsA
Sneered at the sun their haughty huesA
And Touchstone wit and apothegmsA
Laughed down the long cool avenuesA
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Two pleated bowers of woodbine paveG
'Neath all their heaviness of muskH
Two fountains of pellucid waveG
With sunlight tessellated duskH
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Beholding these I seem to feelI
An exodus of earthly sightJ
An influx of ecstatic wealI
Poured thro' my eyes in jets of lightJ
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And so I see the fountains twainK
Of hate and love in Arden thereL
The time of regal CharlemagneK
Of Roland and of OliverM
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Rinaldo of Montalban's towersA
Sleeps by the spring of hate aboveN
Bows spilling all his face with flowersA
Angelica who quaffed of loveN

Madison Julius Cawein



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